July Events 2010 |
| Date |
Events |
| 2 - 31 July |
FINLAND Savonlinna Opera Festival - a grand classical celebration in the Finnish lake district, set in magnificent 15thC St Olaf's Castle. |
| 4 - 26 July 2009 2010 TBA |
FRANCE, Avignon, Festival d'Avignon, a dynamic and diverse Arts festival, boasting over 50 official productions and many more fringes in this stunning historic city. |
| 1 - 21 July TBA |
FRANCE, Aix-en-Provence, International Festival of Lyric Art [Festival d’Aix-en-Provence], a popular summer arts festival, especially for classical music. |
| mid July TBA |
GERMANY, Love Parade - no longer in Berlin, but in the city of Duisberg for 2010 and Gelsenkirchen for 2011. The wackiest of local festivals, a weekend of ecstatic body-baring by 1.5 million techno- ravers. Google translation from German: The Love parade lives. Diagonally, schrill and color-gladly...Sounds about right to us. |
| All July - early August |
SPAIN, Barcelona Summer Festival [del Grec] - theatre, dance and music. |
| July 2 [same date every year] |
ITALY, Siena, Il Palio - a costumed pageant begins a brief but totally insane bareback horse race around the city's main square. Also August 16. |
| Saturdays July to September in different Rhine locations. TBA |
GERMANY Rhine in Flames down the Rhine river from Linz to Bonn on summer nights - a massive and amazing co-ordinated fireworks display from boats, stately buildings and the surrounding countryside. |
| 6 - 14 July [same date every year] |
SPAIN, Pamplona, Los Sanfermines [Bull Running] - don't be bored, be gored! Six bulls are released into the streets every morning of this seven day Basque rite-of-manhood party. You too can battle the big horns. |
| 2 - 17 July |
SWITZERLAND Montreux Jazz Festival - all sorts of non-classical music featured, in spite of the name, in an appealing location on the shore of Lake Geneva in Montreux. |
| 2 - 11 July |
DENMARK, Copenhagen Copenhagen Jazz Festival |
| 14 July - 18 August TBC |
AUSTRIA ImPulsTanz - a dynamic and diverse dance festival across the whole of regal Vienna. |
| 9 - 11 July |
NETHERLANDS [HOLLAND], Rotterdam North Sea Jazz Festival - perhaps the biggest jazz gathering in the world with over 20,000 visitors a day. Lots of big name acts. |
| 12 - 25 July |
IRELAND, Galway Galway Arts Festival - Ireland's biggest arts jamboree, with all kinds of entertainment, street, theatre, music, kid's, exhibitions, concerts. |
| 3 - 25 July |
FRANCE, Tour de France - a three-week cycling race for 3,500km [2000 miles] over the country [the route changes annually]. The world's most famous French sporting event. |
| 13 - 14 July [same date every year] |
FRANCE, Paris Bastille Day - parties, parades, fireworks, picnics. |
| 17 - 18 July [the third weekend every year] |
ITALY, Venice Festa del Redentore - the Festival of the Redeemer celebrating the end of the plague involves hundreds of beautifully decorated and illuminated boats full of beautifully decorated Venetians that gather around sunset, have dinner on board or beside the Giudecca canal, then watch one of Europe's best fireworks displays at 11.30pm on Saturday night. |
| 25 July - 28 August |
GERMANY Wagner Festival [Bayeruther Festspiele] at Bayreuth - very expensive and elitist, held in the unusual theatre that Wagner built. |
| 23 - 25 July |
ENGLAND, Charlton Park, Malmesbury, Wiltshire WOMAD - [World of Music Arts and Dance] impressive world music festival, with 70 artists from 30 countries on 7 stages. Family friendly. |
| 25 July - 30 August TBC |
AUSTRIA Salzburg Festival - opera and concerts. 'Europe's most prestigious summer musical event.' Very large, very expensive. Every year in Mozart's pretty home town of Salzburg. |
| last weekend of July |
ROMANIA Sighisoara Medieval Festival - a large and colourful event full of drama in a beautiful ancient town in Transylvania. |
| 29 July TBC |
SPAIN Fiesta of Near Death Experience in As Neves, Galicia - lucky survivors get carried in their coffins in a procession. |
| 29 July - 1 August |
ENGLAND, Cambridge, Cambridge Folk Festival - the real deal for the folks who like the music. 'A festival with a prestigious reputation for quality music in intimate surroundings.' |
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